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Sid Carrying Shovel

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Description: Sid, wearing an overcoat and a hat, is strolling along the Lake Monona shoreline with a cigar in his mouth. He is carrying a shovel over his right shoulder...
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Sid Holding Shovel

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Description: Sid, wearing an overcoat and a hat, is standing along the Lake Monona shoreline with a cigar in his mouth. He is leaning with both hands on a shovel proppe...
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Deep Snow on Lakeland Avenue

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Description: A car on Lakeland Avenue is buried in snow during a blizzard. A bumper sticker on the car reads: "Nature Bats Last." In the background a person is shovelin...
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Sid with Toonerville in Winter

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Description: Sid standing in his snowy backyard looking at his wooden trolley, Toonerville, which has been covered with plastic for the winter. Some of Sid's sculptures...
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Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
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Railroad Workers

Date: 1940
Description: Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m
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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete...
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Prince Philip Planting an Elm

Date: 1980
Description: University of Wisconsin professor of plant pathology and forestry Eugene B. Smalley (1926-2002), right, is watching as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is...
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Repair Shop at Dealership

Date: 06 29 1925
Description: View through open doorway towards the interior of a repair shop. In the doorway is a rolling cart with brooms, a shovel, and a large, covered metal contain...
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Men Working on Grounds for Baseball Stadium

Date: 07 03 1926
Description: Group of men working on the grounds of a baseball stadium. One man is sitting in a truck which has a painted sign on the side that reads: "D.S.C. City of N...
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Thresher Operation in Field

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: Man standing on truck bed shoveling grain into a hopper. Behind him is a storage building. Another man is standing by machinery on the right.
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Thresher Operation in Field

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: Men are standing on and around a truck in the foreground. Three men are standing at the entrance to a small, round storage building, perhaps for storing gr...
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Corn Crib and Truck Near Storage Silo

Date: 08 13 1926
Description: A man is standing in the back of a truck bed shoveling something into a hopper. There is a child looking out of the rear window of the cab. The hopper is a...
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Man Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: Man standing in horse-drawn wagon loading a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a silo and barn in the background.
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Man Driving Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ...
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Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men are holding with shovels to spread a pile of lime in a field. Behind them is a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader.
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Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ...
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Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.
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Loading Bricks for Use in Roadbuilding

Date: 1915
Description: Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I.
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Men Carrying Supplies for Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I.

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